Originally Posted by
B Piddy
I did the trainer thing for about 2 years. It works good and helped me get in pretty decent shape. I recently started spin classes. I've been at it for over 2 weeks now and the biggest thing that I notice is that I really push myself ALOT harder in spin classes because I have somebody yelling at me. Whereas, with the trainer it's a little easier for me to slack off.
But overall...nothing beats real hills and being outside.
No argument from me - I would be so much happier on the road than the trainer. What I would love to tinker with to reduce the "easy to slack" issue is
one of these, the cube-critter steppers that you connect to the computer so you have to "walk" to keep the computer on. Get one of those, tie it to the output from the bike at one end and the TV at the other: no pedal = no entertainment.